2023-03-26

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This week on Vsauce2 Mind Blow: Mussels with ridiculous distance, some science education under a fluorescent microscope, and: has science finally come up with a hangover cure?

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BENEFACTORS

Xemboy01

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EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Brent Tiggelaar, Wolfgang Hutton, NullBlox.ZachryWilsn, Jonathan Hawk, Markus Fleischer, Thomas Kaminski, Ian Fabs

*** SOURCES ***

Fishing for hosts: Larval spurting by the endangered thick-shelled river mussel, Unio crassus (0:00)

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.4026

A low-cost smartphone fluorescence microscope for research, life science education, and STEM outreach (0:43)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-29182-y

Instructions for how to build it: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41598-023-29182-y/MediaObjects/41598_2023_29182_MOESM1_ESM.pdf

Optical tweezers throw and catch single atoms (1:32)

https://opg.optica.org/optica/viewmedia.cfm?uri=optica-10-3-401&seq=0

FGF21 counteracts alcohol intoxication by activating the noradrenergic nervous system (3:21)

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(23)00041-4

A self-healing electrically conductive organogel composite (4:14)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-023-00932-0

Magical practices? A non-normative Roman imperial cremation at Sagalassos (4:59)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/magical-practices-a-nonnormative-roman-imperial-cremation-at-sagalassos/0559636D95DF5D5CEACACE733F758D1E

Nuts For Nintendo - 20/20, 1988 (5:49)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt4KG9ib8S4

*** CREDITS ***

Hosted and Created by Kevin Lieber

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Research and Writing by Scott Frank

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Special Thanks John Swan

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